Originally Posted by ladida

You do realise that the system can't know how long your password is right? The hashing algorithms used dont store the lenght of the password, although they do have limitations of the maximum lenght that it can store. So, whatever the hashing algorithm they used, the length of the hash is THE SAME for a password of 1 char and 100 char.
So in essence, your assumption is stupid.
The OP assumption has more merit.